Crimson coated her palm and fingers, standing out in stark relief against the pale of her skin. |
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Extend your right arm straight down and align it with your shoulder, palm facing inward. |
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Smoke pours from the hood of the mangled car that has wrapped itself around a sturdy palm. |
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Put the palm of your hand against the bottom of the leading edge of the aileron at each hinge and push up. |
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We have worse water quality now due to erosion and other forest products are hard to get, such as palm leaf for roofing. |
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The ashes are made by burning palm fronds from the previous year's Palm Sunday and getting 'em blessed by someone with the proper credentials. |
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He had us in the palm of his baby-sized hands and instead of choking us in his usual cynicism, he joked with us and stroked us affectionately. |
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The ball spun for the Ecuadorean and he banged in a fierce shot which the goalkeeper could only palm away. |
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Hit the edge of the drum with the knuckly part of your palm and let your fingers bounce off the head. |
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Gardens are pub-bright with lots of geraniums and red-hot pokers and little spiky palm trees. |
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The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline. |
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Along the rural lanes beyond Arambol, old farmhouses are enclosed in latticed palm shade. |
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The Bangalow palm, the waratah, the fire-wheel flower, the banksia and the Sturt desert pea are all accurately captured in the painting. |
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The steps of the church were laden with bundles of palm leaves, creamy Madonna lilies and other traditional Easter blooms. |
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One's eye is immediately drawn to the relief decoration of alternating acanthus and palm leaves that encircles the body just above the base. |
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Chilled banana cream with jaggery Jaggery, which is fermented palm sugar, is fabulous stuff. |
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Soon her palm resembled a chart of lunar phases, four thin moons, their tiny scarlet crescents crossing the lines of galaxies and Fate. |
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The government program offers Javans five-hectare plots to relocate and grow palm oil. |
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The young cadet clutched his head, hammering the heel of his palm against his forehead. |
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Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts. |
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Second course is a heart of palm and jicama salad with a tequila-passion fruit vinaigrette. |
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Maura asked watching her balance a tray of food carefully on the palm of her right hand. |
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Their tools include rat traps, made of palm leaves, which come handy for farm workers-turned-ratpickers to finish their task at a quicker pace. |
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In addition, clothing and mats are popular wares, which are often made from the ubiquitous raffia palm tree. |
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There are palm trees and cobbled roundabouts and beautiful old adobe buildings. |
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European biodiesel production is currently dominated by palm, soya and rapeseed oil. |
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Those on hand waited eagerly for the choppers as the mist turned to rain and the wind whipped the palm trees that edge the field. |
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It's executed with the inside edge of your hand where your thumb is, not the meaty part near the heel of the palm. |
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He struck her in the chest with the heel of his palm and Liz staggered backwards. |
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With the state of the roads in those parts, palm branches might have improved the surface no end, and been effective in laying the dust clouds. |
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Chuckling, I scooped them up in the palm of my hand and laid them gently on top of a soft pile of Green Stamps and bore them so to London town. |
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He leaned back against the wall, shut his eyes, and gently bashed the heel of his palm into his forehead. |
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In a land of palm trees and a time of eternal summer, the destiny of a pluviophile rested in the fickle hands of the clouds. |
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You just may want to take a break from its many activities under a shady palm or almond tree. |
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The palm heel should rest just above the horizontal line linking the eyebrow with the base of the ear. |
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The coins glimmered in my palm, dully reflecting the dim light cast by the streetlamp overhead. |
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Its driver, insouciant about having one more dent to add to the several he had already accumulated, waved an airy palm of instant forgiveness. |
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Claire sniffles, rubbing at her eyes with the heel of her palm. |
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Luckily, the heel of her palm caught her before she hit the stone ground. |
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One man demonstrates the use of the rattle by loudly singing a Seneca song in the theater after the show, while hammering the rattle against his palm. |
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The older fighter stood there in an empty stance as if he were simply holding a conversation, until the moment she struck at his chest with the heel of her left palm. |
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He rubbed his eye with the heel of his palm and smiled widely. |
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Slouched forward with her elbow on the armrest and her chin in the palm of her hand, Dove stares out the window jadedly, her expression with its usual mask of reserve. |
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Here vegetation tends towards dark and spiky lushness, though Darwin itself is trim, its greenery coiffed, its palm trees serried in wind-ruffled ranks around the shoreline. |
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The Girl Scouts uses palm oil to make its cookies, as do manufacturers of ice cream, crackers, packaged breads, and margarine. |
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On one beach, hemmed in by cliffs on either side and palm trees at the back, some Grenadians are playing cricket, three sticks jammed into the sand for stumps. |
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Lee commented, scooping a gob of mashed potato with his finger and wiping it onto a napkin, before proceeding to mould a palm tree from the pale creamy substance. |
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In our digital world, all the accumulated knowledge of human history is available in the palm of our hands. |
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Companies tend to create oil palm plantations in large tracts, many of which adjoin neighboring plantations. |
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The villagers showed us how they collect lontar palm juice, and distill it into an alcoholic drink either fine or rough, sold cheaply in the market for local consumption. |
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This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand. |
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She poured salt into the palm of her hand and then sprinkled it over the stew. |
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The store's owner had seen one of the girls palm a lipstick before heading for the door. |
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This palm is considered a keystone species because it supplies fruits for birds and rodents all year and is intensively harvested for culinary purposes. |
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He was quiet, his heartbeat a slow and steady thump against my palm. |
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Designer Harry Rice completed the aloha fantasy by bringing in full-grown palm trees and other foliage for the two air-conditioned tents where the 300 guests were entertained. |
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Enriched with shea butter, aloe vera, palm oil and essential oils, this bar cleans, hydrates and conditions the face and body, and gives great shave foam! |
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I closed my eyes, pressing the heel of my palm against my forehead. |
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Furnishings in this vein incorporate exotic materials such as bamboo, wicker, rattan, banana bark and motifs of monkeys, elephants, camels and palm leaves. |
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He has a habit, disconcerting at first, of turning his palm quizzically outward and staring off into the distance, as if silently interrogating an unseen, all-knowing source. |
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Josiah leaned forward, his left palm resting on the corresponding knee. |
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The sago palm weevil, a type of beetle, is eaten, roasted or raw, as a larvae in Southeast Asia. |
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Soon his coffers were overflowing with revenue from rubber, palm oil, and ivory. |
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While floating along and staring up at the pinkish rock walls, it suddenly seems as if the canyon has reached out and cupped me lightly in the palm of its hand. |
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Their captors wore palm leaves, leopard skins, and magical relics to make themselves immune to bullets. |
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The painting has elements that recall kitschy Florida palm tree souvenirs. |
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A hand stuck out of the door, palm up, fingers waggling expectantly. |
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Perched on his palm is a little slice of labradorescent paradise. |
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Malacca has several beaches edged with palm trees which has brought a number of resorts along the coast. |
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To do the card trick, you have to learn to palm one of the cards. |
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With your palm facing down, your wrist snaps forward. This is the same type of motion used for the backhanded change-up. |
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Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth. |
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From the palm nut we derive palm oil, the most comestible oil in our country and in the whole of Africa. |
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After crossing his palm with a donation, I felt entitled at least to ask where he was from. |
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She caught a last glimpse of the pattern of the carpet when the forehanded chop with the edge of the palm came down on the back of the neck. |
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A spit on the palm and a full-handed slap was a deal but if only fingertips slapped then the bargaining would continue. |
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A former student, a thirteen-year-old girl, used the heel palm to protect her sixteen-year-old sister from a violent, heroin-addict boyfriend. |
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In school, being wrong had a way of cutting my brain, the like way a stem of a fan palm could cut a hand. It was hurtsome. |
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Atopic patients with ichthyosis vulgaris often have keratosis pilaris and hyperlinear, exaggerated palm creases. |
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Crops, that are typically linked to forests' destruction are timber, soy, palm oil and beef. |
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The country is dominated by lush vegetation, with villages often buried in groves of mango, jackfruit, bamboo, betel nut, coconut and date palm. |
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Note each palm leaf section was only several lines, written longitudinally across the leaf, and bound by twine to the other sections. |
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For example, in Na Bure, Fiji, thatchers combine fan palm leave roofs with layered reed walls. |
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In Southeast Asia, mangrove nipa palm leaves are used as thatched roof material known as attap dwelling. |
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In areas where palms are abundant, palm leaves are used to thatch walls and roofs. |
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Ground manioc is mixed with water and pressed through tube woven from palm fibers to remove toxic cyanogenic compounds. |
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It was published the following year by Editions Poetry London and comprised, among other drawings, a stuffed zebra and a palm tree. |
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Unfortunately yellow color is not unusual to find in the palm of a Mercurian. |
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Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century northern France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand. |
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Only the goalkeeper may use his hands, but only with an open palm since he is not allowed to catch it. |
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Agriculture mainly produces rice, palm oil, tea, coffee, cacao, medicinal plants, spices and rubber. |
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Other crops domesticated in West Africa include African rice, yams and the oil palm. |
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Another Greenpeace movement concerning the rain forests is discouraging palm oil industries. |
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Cycads, similar to palm trees, were also common, as were ginkgos and Dicksoniaceous tree ferns in the forest. |
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The home side's goalkeeper Asmir Begovic managed to palm the drive on to the post but the sheer pace of the shot forced the ball into the net. |
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Raise your right hand, palm in, to neck level and stretch it forward, palm down. |
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Damage to the ulnar nerve in the palm, carpal tunnel in the wrist, the genitourinary tract or bicycle seat neuropathy may result from overuse. |
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At the top this horn spreads out like the palm of a hand or the branches of a tree. |
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Andy Warhol was lunching poolside, amid the palm trees and exotic bird-of-paradise flowers. |
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Rukhal bread is a thin, round bread originally baked over a fire made from palm leaves. |
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They often depict traditional Saudi items such as coffee pots, incense burners, palm trees, etc. |
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It is a sweet, lightly fermented palm wine, and is found in bars in towns and villages across the country. |
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Native mammals include the palm civet cat, the dugong, the cloud rat and the Philippine tarsier associated with Bohol. |
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These areas are dominated by grasses and bushes along with some smaller trees such as jahuacte, cocoyol and small palm trees. |
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They include coconut palms, palo mulato, royal palm and pimento de Tabasco. |
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Wood furniture and other items are made by the Huasteca people, mostly using cedar and palm trees. |
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On top of being unrounded, the vowel in lot and bother is lengthened, merging with the vowel in palm and father. |
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The net is kept open by two men, while the fry are driven into it using a 30-60 m long scare-line made up of rope and palm leaves. |
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She twisted out from under the claim of his palm to settle her feet on the floor. |
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By the time she made it to the mic the audience was ready to eat every snarktastic morsel from the palm of her hand. |
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Though the sugar palm tree grows slowly, it is resistant to variable weather and has a life-span of up to 80-90 years. |
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Arenga pinnata, the sugar palm or gomuti palm, was probably one of mankind's first sources of sugar. |
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The folded moist towelette was smaller than my palm, but when unfolded at least cleaned my hands. |
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I stood looking at the tokens as if he had just deposited a steaming turdpile into my palm. |
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The preliminary conclusion was that the SARS virus crossed the xenographic barrier from palm civet to humans. |
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Trunk injection of systemic insecticides against the bagworm, Metisa plana on oil palm. |
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The sprawling 17-acre park is a miniature holy city, complete with a fake palm trees, centurions, and a Wailing Wall. |
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Exploration of the acarine fauna on coconut palm in Brazil with emphasis on Aceria guerreronis and its natural enemies. |
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Add to that 1,000 or more waypoints, and you hold an amazing amount of deer hunting information in the palm of your hand. |
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A black-bellied whistling duck, ensconced in a hollow palm trunk, squealed a few notes of surprise as we passed. |
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These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans. |
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In some recipes, easily available and cheap jaggery made of sugarcane or palm toddy replaced the sugar used in Europe. |
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That city-state rocked in the '90s, and banks sprung up like palm trees. |
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Rather, to restart the flow, she might begin drinking palm wine or eat Job's tears. |
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Their resources were limited, mostly camels, palm and khaf trees, fish in the sea and falcon to hunt. |
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And last week a non-venomous Californian kingsnake was dumped in the warm palm house. |
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The ample and resilient foliage of a lady palm or a fishtail palm would readily fill the room. |
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Boston fern, lady palm, bamboo palm, peace lily, corn, weeping fig and florists mum. |
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Consider also the lady palm and, for the lowest available light, choose the Kentia. |
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He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit. |
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It has given birth to boisterous palm pounders, tin-sheet shakers and shillabers on the right hand, and to nose wrinklers, tongue stickers and loud sneezers on the left. |
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One local specialty are wood-bottom rolling machines for leaf tea, made from Kittul wood, a miracle palm tree endemic to the Sri Lanka Rainforest. |
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His battle is for bread, while white-handed theorists, who never placed a palm to an implement of labor, gather shrewdly into well-filled safes all the products of honest. |
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The shaftment is the width of the palm and the outstretched thumb. |
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The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan. |
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The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child. |
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This analogy is not comparing all the properties between a hand and a foot, but rather comparing the relationship between a hand and its palm to a foot and its sole. |
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The main produce from the pacific is copra or coconut, but timber, beef, palm oil, cocoa, sugar and ginger are also commonly grown across the tropics of the Pacific. |
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However, the major exception to this is North American English, where the vowel is lengthened to merge with the vowel in palm, as described below. |
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Bolivia is considered the place of origin for such species as peppers and chili peppers, peanuts, the common beans, yucca, and several species of palm. |
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Government initiatives such as a rural development program and state farms were established to boost production of commodities such as rice, coffee, cattle, silk and palm oil. |
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They crossed into Mozambique with palm trees yielding coconuts. |
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Insects form part of the human diet in some cultures, and in Thailand, crickets are farmed for this purpose in the north of the country and palm weevil larvae in the south. |
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Decorations include vine scrolls, palm wreaths, and Greek letters. |
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It is sometimes called vegetable ivory, or tagua, and is the seed endosperm of the ivory nut palm commonly found in coastal rainforests of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. |
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Both islets are overgrown with grasses, bushes and a few palm trees. |
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Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. |
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For all who cross his palm with silver he condescends to lift the drapery that hides the reclining figure, and the larger the coin the longer the look. |
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They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths. |
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Lady palm, tulips and pot chrysanthemums All soak up ammonia-based smells. |
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Among the plants that do best in containers are small palms such as Mediterranean fan palm for sun, dwarf pygmy date for partial sun, and lady palm or bamboo palm for shade. |
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Calandra added more, until the oil threatened to overspill her palm. |
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The temperate oceanic climate favours the naturalisation of southern and exotic plants such as palm trees, brought back by many Cherbourg sailors and explorers. |
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Vai has a palm beach and is the largest natural palm forest in Europe. |
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The handstrap includes an opisthenar-surrounding strap portion which attaches to a handgrip by way of transmission straps extending under the palm and thumb. |
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She took a walnut from the nutbowl, and rolled it in her palm. |
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Transcriptome studies of oil palm and olive have also indicated key differences in the transcriptional control of TAG biosynthesis in nonseeds from that of seed tissues. |
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In China, pairs of walnuts have traditionally been rotated and played with in the palm of the hand, both as a means to stimulate blood circulation and as a status symbol. |
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Much of Indonesia's deforestation is caused by forest clearing for the palm oil industry, which has cleared 18 million hectares of forest for palm oil expansion. |
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In these areas, the lontar palm provides timber and thatching as well as food in the form of fruits, and palm sugar which is obtained by tapping the fruit stems. |
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The king of creation would not have curved his palm into the likeness of a Hindu mudra in an attempt to protect the tiny launching pad on his thumbnail from the dank wind. |
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Settlers have introduced many species of palm trees to Bermuda. |
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Areas such as Inverewe Garden in the northwest and the Logan Botanic Garden in the southwest have warm enough microclimates to support palm trees. |
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Other sections had less secure support, consisting, in some cases, of sections of toddy palm, insulated with pieces of sal wood fastened to their tops. |
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Others, such as the critic Michael Coveney, awarded the palm to Gielgud. |
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In ancient times, manuscripts were written on palm leaves, tree barks, parchment vellum and terracotta plates and preserved at monasteries known as viharas. |
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Rick's scam to palm her off on Huey went over like a fart in church, just like Huey had predicted. She had indignantly scolded him when he brought it up. |
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In the xeric regions of Balochistan, date palm and Ephedra are common. |
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The heddle hook, used to draw in the broken ends of the warp, was carried in the mouth, the small pair of weaver's scissors in the palm of the hand. |
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In particular the tea-ceremony tradition speaks of the architectonics of the vessel and implies great spaces in a pot that can be set in the palm of the hand. |
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Make a bed of risotto on the palm of one hand, put a tablespoon of ragu into the centre, close your hand and complete the ball with a little more risotto. |
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Tests using blends of conventional jet fuel with alternative biofuels began in 2008 with a Virgin Atlantic Airways flight that used coconut and babassu palm oil. |
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Billy was just as yumtastic and she couldn't even sweat a palm for him. |
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